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Flights of Fancy: Taonga of the Sky - Birdsong & Baroque

- Saturday 23 Aug 2025
- 7pm - 8:30pm
- Gallagher Academy || Concert Chamber
- $5.12 - $35.88
Juxtaposing famous baroque music inspired by birdsong and contemporary New Zealand works championing our own bird life and those lost to us.
We celebrate our New Zealand composers with the premiere of Mr贖 for strings and harpsichord by Bjorn Arntsen - the 2024 Tertiary Winner of the Composition Workshop Competition in collaboration with the 51蹤獲, Anthony Ritchie's Tui for solo flute and Janet Jennings' The Lost Birds of Aotearoa.
Programme:
Vivaldi - Concerto for violin in A major RV 335 Il Cuc羅 / The Cuckoo
Anthony Ritchie - Tui for solo flute opus 109 (2004)
Janet Jennings - The Lost Birds of Aotearoa for string quartet (2023)
- Interval -
Bjorn Arntsen - Mr贖 for strings and harpsichord (world premi癡re)
Vivaldi - Concerto for flute in D major, Op. 10, No. 3 'Il gardellino' /Goldfinch
Vivaldi - Concerto for Violin in A minor RV 356